Strawberry Hill railway station is in Strawberry Hill in the

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in south west

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, and is in

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. It is down the line from . The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway. The station is equipped with

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swipe terminals. The line through Strawberry Hill (the Kingston Loop) opened in 1863, but Strawberry Hill station did not open until 1 December 1873. The current booking office building on the up, or western, side and the platform canopies date from the 1935 modernisation. Lifting barriers replaced the

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swing gates in 1973, the signal box was demolished in 1975. Strawberry Hill train maintenance depot, built in 1897, is inside the triangular junction of the Shepperton Branch Line with the Kingston Loop Line.

Service

The off-peak weekday service in trains per hour at the station is: * two to

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via

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* two to London Waterloo via

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. Monday to Friday, four additional early morning rush-hour trains to Waterloo are routed from

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. Three additional evening rush-hour trains from Waterloo continue from here down the Shepperton Branch Line. On Sundays, there is an hourly service each way round the loop, plus one per hour after midday each way that runs between Kingston and Waterloo via after reversing at .

References

External links

Twickenham Museum article on Strawberry Hill Station
{{Use British English, date=August 2012 Railway stations in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873 Railway stations served by South Western Railway Twickenham